One of our country's most prolific and bestselling authors, Stephen King has published 50 novels and written some 400 short stories, selling more than 350 million copies worldwide and in the process likely causing countless others to have conversations with their mothers about how to keep their fears at bay. When I was a kid, my mother used to say, ‘Think of the worst thing that you can and if you say it out loud, then it won't come true.' And that's probably been the basis of my career." In a recent interview in the Wall Street Journal, Stephen King confessed, "I just write about what scares me. On behalf of Tom McNaught, Executive Director of the Kennedy Library Foundation, and all of my Library and Foundation colleagues, I thank you all for coming, especially those of you who are here for the first time, and acknowledge the generous underwriters of the Kennedy Library Forums: lead sponsor Bank of America, Boston Capital, the Lowell Institute, Raytheon, the Boston Foundation, and our media partners, The Boston Globe, WBUR and NECN.
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